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[9] cumulus siccam sedem frumentis praebeat. Colles pinguis soli peracta satione trimestrium1mense Martio, si vero tepor caeli siccitasque regionis suade- 2 3 4 5 [p. 134] bit, Februario statim proscindendi sunt. Deinde ab Aprile medio usque in solstitium iterandi, tertiandique Septembri circa aequinoctium; ac totidem operis, quot uliginosi campi, excolitur iugerum talis agri.

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2 solis codd.

3 aliquibus R pauci, edd. ante Lundström.

4 statim R pauci, edd. ante Gesn.

5 trimestri Ald., Gesn., Schn. a About three-fifths of an acre. b Varro says (R.R. I. 29. 3) that the ridges between the furrows are called porcae because that soil produces (porricit) the grain.

Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture, Volume 1. Harrison Boyd Ash. London. Cambridge. William Heinemann; Harvard University. 1940. Keyboarding.

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